Our last expression today is “dinheiro de pinga”. Literally, we could understand it as “money we use to buy pinga”.

Pinga is an alcoholic beverage produced in Brazil. Buying pinga here is usually very cheap. For instance, you could have “caipirinha made of vodka” or “caipirinha made of pinga”. If you choose the second one, you’ll probably pay less for it.

At this point, you may know that when we say “dinheiro de pinga”, we mean we’re buying something cheap. But, you should also know that this has kind of a pejorative meaning. When we use this expression we are generally using sarcasm included.

For instance:

Aquela Ferrari foi dinheiro de pinga para ele (Buying that Ferrari meant nothing to him. He could by a lot of them)